It's official – last year we achieved more for our community than ever before.
Among the highlights are these publishing successes:
- Researchers around the world chose to publish their best papers with us 43,773 times last year – a 20% increase on 2014.
- We launched four new journals, offering homes for high-impact articles in the fields of engineering, nanoscience and water research.
- We saw both an increase in article submissions and usage; articles were downloaded 37.5 million times – that’s an average of 1.1 papers every second.
- And because those articles came from corresponding authors in 141 different countries, we were able to accurately present the international scope of work in key subjects.
It’s all thanks to support from you
As a not-for-profit and society publisher, we rely on our members, on the authors and reviewers who work with our publishing team, on our international network of chemical scientists – and we rely on the thousands of librarians and information specialists who share our journals, databases and books with their researchers, students and their own community.
Without your dedication, we can’t exist.
Our journals continue to make an impact
The latest Journal Citation Reports® also speak for themselves:
So what’s next?
We’re on a mission to make the best chemical science knowledge available to everyone who needs it, wherever they are in the world.
When it comes to the people running libraries in institutions and scientific businesses, this means giving you resources that will help you promote chemistry to your library users – things like the library toolkit.
It means investing sustainably in high quality products that are worth spending your budget on, from journals and eBooks to databases and expertly curated updating services.
Above all, it means working together to secure the future of a subject that you love.
The 5 year impact factor is an indication of the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the Journal Citation Reports year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.
Data based on 2015 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Thomson Reuters, June 2016).